Conditionals and Prediction : Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions /

This book offers an in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages.

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Main Author: Dancygier, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 87.
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